The following are training modules from the National Collaboration for Youth addressing competency areas they feel youth professionals should have. They are simple, easy to follow and could provide items for your tool box that help you teach other youth professionals in your counties. You will note in the Empowering Youth, they use the last category as Resources where we use the term Partner.You can substitute this in your work for consistency.
The modules are as follows:
Involving and Empowering Youth
Cares for, Involves and Works with Families and Community
Communicates and Develops Positive Relationships with Youth
All three training modules can be found on the 4-H Staff Intranet page under Resources for training.
Wendy
Partnering with Parents ONLINE will begin June 11th and go through November 30th.
This 11 module interactive training focuses on strengthening identified core competencies for working with parents. Learners particiapte in each module over a two-week period, and interact with a variety of Extension Specialists from Iowa State University Extension, as well as other universities and organizations. Each module contains activities and other resources you can download and use in your work with parents. The National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM) and the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) are incorporated in this training.
Topics include culture and parenting, parenting with special challenges, examining parenting curricula, measuring program outcomes, feeding children, relationship of financial stability and parenting, understanding parent and child development, guiding children, and much more!
This ONLINE training/course includes chat rooms, discussion boards, videostreams, eJournals, small group and individual assignments, and readings. Chat sessions are held once every two weeks (one chat per module).
CEUs, social worker hours, 3 undergraduate and graduate credits available, as well as a Parenting Education Certificate of Completion from ISUE.
To register, go to
and click on "Online Registration"
Sincerely,
Kim
Kimberly Greder
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Family Life Extension State Specialist
56 LeBaron Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1120
kgreder@iastate.edu
515-294-5906
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is offering an
online truancy reduction tool kit for communities interested in
instituting a truancy reduction program. The tool kit covers such topics
as truancy's extent, causes, and connections to dropping out of school and
delinquency, as well as lessons learned from the evaluation of truancy
reduction programs. It provides resources and information to guide
communities, schools, and parents in addressing the problem of truancy.
Resources:
OJJDP's Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program is
available at
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=238899.
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Subscribe or unsubscribe to JUVJUST.
Visit the OJJDP Web site at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ojjdp.
Between January and June 2007, the Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire has assembled a roster of trainings and workshops designed to address the increasingly diverse and complex needs of individuals, families and professionals in New England. From strategies to better include children in general education classrooms to training on legal issues for those who work with older adults, the IOD, with the help of direct input from many partners and consumers, has organized 22 programs to address several key priority areas. In an effort to make these research and best-practice based opportunities more accessible, the IOD is offering workshops in almost every region of the Granite State. More information and online registration can be found on the IOD website at www.iod.unh.edu.
On May 23, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services will air the first of two Webcasts and satellite broadcasts on Preventing Gangs in Our Communities. (The second will be broadcast on June 6, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. ET.) Gang specialists from federal and local law enforcement agencies and community and faith-based organizations will join participants in discussing what law enforcement and communities are doing to share responsibility for gang prevention.
Resources: To obtain further information about these broadcasts and to sign up to participate, visit http://www.DOJConnect.com.
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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Progams in the U.S. Department of Justice. TO subscribe to JUVJUST: Visit the OJJDP Web site at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ojjdp.
The 4-H Science Enrichment Education for Kids (SEEK) and NatureMapping
Program is an innovative 12-week experiential science program designed to serve home schooled youth in Arkansas. It was recently named a Program of Distinction by our federal partner. SEEK strives to meet the science education and life skill development needs of home schooled youth. Curriculum is drawn from NatureMapping, Project WILD, Project Learning Tree, Project WET, Wonders of Wetlands, Project Underground, CCS curriculum, and grade appropriate school text books. For a full report on the program go to: http://www.national4-hheadquarters.gov/about/pod-set/4h_seek.pdf